Understanding the evolutionary fate of finite populations: the dynamics of mutational effects.

The most consistent result in more than two decades of experimental evolution is that the fitness of populations adapting to a constant environment does not increase indefinitely, but reaches a plateau. Using experimental evolution with bacteriophage, we show here that the converse is also true. In...

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Main Authors: Olin K Silander, Olivier Tenaillon, Lin Chao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-04-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1845161?pdf=render